Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

With Jerusalem’s recent official recognition by the United States as Israel’s capital the city has once again been thrust into a firestorm of contentious world opinion. Jerusalem, of all cities upon the face of the earth, is no stranger to contention and controversy. Three thousand years ago when David penned the appeal to “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem” no one could have imagined how prophetically imperative that prayer request would become. Nobody knew the incessant battles that would be fought, both in the natural and the spirit, in seeking to establish a lasting “peace within [its] walls and security within [its] towers” and yet to no avail.